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> [Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gza/hip-hop-started-with-street-poets-with-great-lyrical-skills-and-that/)

[Gza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gza/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c0/gza-3767_always_hip-hop-started-with-street-poets-with-g_94171.png)

> [“The best writing is what's right in front of you. Sometimes I'd walk down the street with poets and they wouldn't see anything. I'd have to shake their arm and say, 'Look! Look!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-ferlinghetti/the-best-writing-is-what-s-right-in-front-of-you-sometimes-i-d-walk/)

[Lawrence Ferlinghetti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-ferlinghetti/)

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